Posted in unemployed, fuckwits, Fine Gael on Feb 9th, 2010 13 Comments »
What the fuck did he expect? Richard Bruton to step aside and let Lee take his cabinet seat? Leo Varadkar to grow a heart and lose a spine? Enda Kenny to make shrewd and calculating choices?
It’s hard to know which is funnier: that George Lee thought Fine Gael knew (or cared) about the economy, or […]
Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on May 22nd, 2009 10 Comments »
Geoge Lee has absolutely no economic ideas to offer this country. Absolutely none.
The man has a list of bloomers to his name, but my favourite at the moment is his statement that we need to get the social partners talking together.
What, something like social partnership, George?
Something that was first introduced to this country in […]
Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on May 20th, 2009 9 Comments »
“They keep talking about offering an alternative to “working people”. But we’re all working people. Well, except for the unemployed, and I presume they want to offer them an alternative too. What we are is a deeply conservative people with broad agreement on where we want to go, if slightly different views on how to […]
Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on May 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
I was waiting for my no.40 bus on Parnell Street when I popped into the shop to pick up the Irish Times for the Friday jobs section. Waste of time, I know, but you have to keep the eye out. Anyways, while I was there I saw that the Evening Herald had an article […]
Posted in Aging Crooners, Irish Economy, Fine Gael on May 7th, 2009 4 Comments »
Always I have done my best to keep the public fully informed and up to date about the economy. As danger loomed larger I consistently highlighted the risks of inaction and complacency. These warnings were ignored. Instead the Government chose to portray them as an effort to talk down the economy. It is now too […]
Posted in Recession, Fianna Fáil, Economy, Fine Gael on Mar 1st, 2009 14 Comments »
…and this brings me to the third point which goes to the root of the whole matter: that the relation to capital and labour, employer and employed, should not be one of hostility and suspicion and self-seeking, but one of sympathy and co-operation, each caring for the interests of the other as if they were […]
Posted in Irish Society, Fianna Fáil, Irish Economy, Labour, Fine Gael, politics/Ireland on Dec 6th, 2008 No Comments »
(Originally posted on Irish Left Review.)
Following on from the publication of “Towards a New Economic Narrative“, I interviewed Michael Taft about his ideas for the Irish economy. I started off by asking Michael what was actually wrong with the Irish economy, and what was his strategy for getting the economy working in the short-term, with […]
Posted in Economy, Fianna Fáil, Irish journalism, fuckwits, Banks, Irish Economy, Fine Gael, PDs, Greens, Politics on Nov 18th, 2008 3 Comments »
That was then…
Ireland’s decision to guarantee Irish banks’ deposits and debts for two years to calm investor concern could be followed by other countries. This may be a template for rescues elsewhere if Irish banks can replenish their capital base,” Harvinder Sian, a fixed-income strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London said […]
Posted in Irish Economy, Economy, Fianna Fáil, PDs, Labour, politics/Ireland, Fine Gael, Politics on Sep 30th, 2008 10 Comments »
Short-sighted economic policy?
Property bubble burst?
Severe credit-crunch?
Erectile dysfunction?
If you are ticking all of the above boxes, (except maybe, ahem, the last one), then you’re probably in Ireland in 2008, or Sweden in 1992.
Sixteen years ago, Sweden was looking down the barrel of an insolvent gun. Its housing bubble had burst, resulting in a credit crunch […]
Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on Sep 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Fine Gael and Enda Kenny are giving it socks today about “common sense” and “missed opportunities.” Kenny’s trying to make out that during the past four years Fine Gael was a tough-nut opposition, one that wasn’t afraid to shoot from the hip, to tell it like it is, to crap REAL bullets - and fire […]
